- Jurisdiction
- Texas
I am renting a commercial property and found a subtenant to assume the lease on my behalf for the remainder of the contract between the landlord and myself. This was approved be the landlord. A contract was signed by myself and the subtenant. The subtenant has always paid rent on time and is up to date with their payments but has notified me they will not be paying rent for next month and will be vacating the premises before the end of the month. Their reason for leaving is because business is slow and they don't want to continue. This is only a 6 day notice to leave and the lease still has another 6 months left on the contract. As the sublandlord can I legally seek to recover the future unpaid rent from the subtenant? Also are any lock out provisions subject to the original lease and only permissable after the subtenant fails to pay rent?